The Groupo SmS and the Center for Genomic Regulation has organized a new Science Coffee Talk for tomorrow Wednesday, May 19 at 19.00. The talk, entitled "Nanoscience: Miniature Science", will deal with the world of nanoparticles.

18 may 2010

Today, Monday, May 17 at 19:30 in the Garcilaso Public Library de Barcelona, Dr. Antoni Salvà will give a lecture on how food is related to aging. The talk forms part of the lecture series “Perspectives on the aging” organized by the Barcelona Public Libraries in cooperation with the Institute of Aging of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

17 May 2010

Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 18, the opening ceremony of the exhibition '16 Científiques Catalanes ('16 Female Scientists in Catalonia') will take place at 12:00 at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). The ceremony will begin with the inaugural conference entitled 'Professional life and personal life,' by Prof. Alicia Casals and Esther Añón, pre-doctoral research student at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia. At 13:00, the official opening of the exhibition, which runs until June 4, will be held.

17 May 2010

Monday, May 17, is World Internet Day. People, institutions, social organizations, research centers, municipalities and anyone who wishes can join the party by participating in various activities. Citilab will also form part of this group.

14 may 2010

The exhibition hall of the ETSEIB will host until May 16 the exhibition 'Women and Mathematics,' a collection of documents from the Committee on Women and Mathematics of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society. The show contains 13 portraits and interviews with relevant female mathematics from all across the country.

13 may 2010

The initiative 'eFlors,' developed by Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems (BCDS) along with the collaboration of the City of Girona, will offer a free service which assists in the location of the exhibition spaces of Girona’s flower show using the latest advances in mobile devices and technology known as 'augmented reality.'

13 may 2010

Thursday, May 13 at 19.00, in the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona, archaeologist Luis Gonzalez will present his lecture “Cuisine, Power and Art: History” where he will argue that while it might appear that many modern dishes are more like works of art than food, the truth is that design has always had a place in the kitchen.

13 may 2010

Tomorrow, Thursday, May 13 at 8:45 am, the coffee-talk “Catalonia, could it be logistics?” will be held in the Sala Cotxeres of Palau Robert in Barcelona. The talk is part of the conference series organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Networks: a Journey Through the Infrastructure of Catalonia” and will be led by Josep Anton Burgasé, president of the Port of Tarragona, Enric Casi, general manager of Mango, and Joaquim Coello, naval engineer, CEO of Applus + and chairman of the University of Barcelona’s Social Council.

12 may 2010

“Antarctica: the Continent for Science” is the title of the televised report about the ongoing research into the world’s remotest continent scheduled to be broadcast during this week’s episode of “Crónicas” on Televsión Española. The team led by researcher Conxita Avila of the Department of Animal Biology at the University of Barcelona (UB) participated in the making of the program. From the Spanish base Gabriel de Castilla located on Deception Island in the South Shetland archipelago, experts Sergi Taboada of the UB and Javier Cristobo of the Gijón Oceanographic Center explain the objectives of the ACTIQUIM Project, led by Avila. The ACTIQUIM Projects forms part of the Spain’s National Biodiversity, Earth Sciences and Global Change Program.

12 may 2010

The modern city is revealed with increasing clarity as a diffuse and complex whole whose role has become a meeting area between the general trends of globalization and the pre-existing particularities of the local.

12 may 2010

The Naturalist Group of Osona has organized an interesting outing to visit the orchids of the Osona region. On this fieldtrip, to be held on Saturday, May 15, flower lovers can discover many species of orchids common to the area.

12 may 2010

Sustainable development touches all of us: governments, scientists, the whole society and each and every one of us individuals. We often think that someone else has the responsibility to promote change, but there are many actions we can do right now to help ourselves to make our towns, cities, countries and the whole planet a more habitable place for future generations. We all know the most basic steps, but there are always new, imaginative and even surprising ones to learn.

11 May 2010

Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 12, at 12:00, in the Sala de Graus vieja of the University of Barcelona (UB), the lecture series “Physics: An Adventure in Film” continues with the conference “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fluids But Were Too Afraid to Ask” by Laura Casanellas, of the Department of Structures and Components of Matter of the UB.

11 May 2010

Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 12, at 19:00, Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of the Genetics of Behavior at the Brain Mind Institute, will give the conference 'Stress and Memory: a Dangerous Relationship' at the CaixaForum Museum in Lleida, Spain.

11 May 2010

On Wednesday, May 12, at 19:00, Jordi Marí will hold the seminar “Ethical Finance: Is it possible?” at Casa Orlandi in Barcelona. The seminar forms part of the 2nd cycle of “Coffee Talks on Economics,” which deals with the social economy and the construction of alternative economic models.

11 May 2010